[TSullivan]

IcyDock has been kind enough to sponsor a competition on StorageReview where we look for members with the slowest and fastest hard drives. The first stage is a search for users with the slowest drives still functioning - producing a super slow hard drive benchmark result. These must be platter based drives (not flash media). The two members who are selected as having the slowest drives will win either the MB881U3-1SA SATA/IDE USB 3.0 Pro Adapter or the MB981U3-1SA 2.5"/3.5" USB 3.0 SATA Docking Station. By handling both SATA and IDE interfaces for both 2.5" and 3.5" drives, users will easily be able to transfer data from their older hard drives to newer, faster models. Both of these adapters also support USB 3.0 for fast data transfer speeds.

The second stage of this content is looking for users with the fastest hard drives, or hard drive arrays (yup, RAID included) to win the MB982SP-1S Full Metal 2.5" to 3.5" SATA HDD & SSD Converter or the MB882SP-1S-1B 2.5" to 3.5" SSD & SATA Hard Drive Converter. Considering users with very fast hard drives will most likely have or be transitioning to faster 2.5" SSDs, the adapters will be perfect for mounting new drives in a desktop setting. The same rules apply to this part of the contest, where you must post a benchmark screen shot to be judged.

The benchmark of choice for this contest will be CrystalDiskMark for its ease of use and simple installation. Perform the benchmark with a 1GB test size and 5 averaged values, and the two users with either the fastest or slowest results win. The admins on StorageReview will be the judges of this contest, although the results will speak for themselves in this case.

You may submit a result for either part of the contest. To qualify, you must list your system configuration, drive information, and benchmark result for each drive entered. The contest will begin today and extend to August 12th.

[Brian]

This should be fun - time to fire up those IDE drives.

[dhanson865]

TSullivan, on 12 July 2011 - 02:03 AM, said:

The benchmark of choice for this contest will be CrystalDiskMark for its ease of use and simple installation. Perform the benchmark with a 1GB test size and 5 averaged values, and the two users with either the fastest or slowest results win. The admins on StorageReview will be the judges of this contest, although the results will speak for themselves in this case.

Will we standardize on Crystal Disk Mark 2.2.0p or 3.x (currently 3.0.1b) or will either be allowed?

[Beenthere]

My laptop HD is so slow it can't run the benchmark. Do I win?

[dhanson865]

Assuming Crystal Disk Mark 2.2 is OK I'll toss in a first submission for the slow side (even though it's my fastest hard drive)

ASUS M2A-VM
X3 720 BE (reverted to stock clocks for this bench but CPU usage was single digits so I guess that didn't matter)
2GB DDR2-800
AMD/ATI Radeon 5570 DDR5 512MB
Windows XP Pro 32 bit

let me know if any more config info is pertinent


WD2500KS 178GB used out of 232GB
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Number of downloads: 20

[Brian]

Beenthere, on 12 July 2011 - 09:31 AM, said:

My laptop HD is so slow it can't run the benchmark. Do I win?

Oh come on...it can't be *that* bad can it

[coyote]

The slower benchmark (left) is a 27GB IBM drive (purchased back in the 1900s); the faster benchmark (right) is a 2TB WD Caviar Black (purchased 2010).

Compaq Presario SR1913WM, 3GB RAM, 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64 4800+ dual core, XP Pro sp3 32bit
IBM-DPTA-372730 (27 GB)
WD2001FASS

I got a faster read speed (135.1) out of a VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX, but it only scored 107.7 write, so it's combined speed was lower.

This post has been edited by coyote: 13 July 2011 - 02:11 PM

[coyote]

Ignore please (I can't figure out how to delete a post.)

This post has been edited by coyote: 12 July 2011 - 01:47 PM

[coyote]

TSullivan, on 12 July 2011 - 02:03 AM, said:

The benchmark of choice for this contest will be CrystalDiskMark for its ease of use and simple installation. Perform the benchmark with a 1GB test size and 5 averaged values, and the two users with either the fastest or slowest results win. The admins on StorageReview will be the judges of this contest, although the results will speak for themselves in this case.

Will you average Read and Write speed? Or just judge on Read speed, or on Write speed?

(Different of my drives do 'better', depending.)

This post has been edited by coyote: 12 July 2011 - 01:52 PM

[Beenthere]

Brian, on 12 July 2011 - 09:39 AM, said:

Oh come on...it can't be *that* bad can it

Are you familiar with Chinese water torture?